In the municipality of Raade lies a nice little settlement called ‘Saltnes’. Normally one doesn’t really discover such places in particular, the reason beeing that ‘through-traffic’ usually is directed outside the settlement itself. This time I stopped the car and started walking through some of the area in order to convey some of the atmosphere in a place like ‘Saltnes’

Det første stedet jeg la merke til var ‘Spetalen Skole‘, en barneskole med 240 elever.
The first place I noticed was the Spetalen school, a primary school with 240 pupils.

Tvers over gaten ligger ‘Mattisgården Barnehage’.
Across the street lies the ‘Mattisgaarden Kindergarten’.

‘Saltnes’ is actually an ideal place to live. Only 6 miles from the municipal center of Raade; a couple of hundred yards down to the sea; less than half an hour by car to Sweden or the city of Fredrikstad which include less people as an ordianry section of cities like Copenhagen or Gothenburg.

I hele Rade kommune bodde det (i 2015) 7 206 mennesker. Hvor mange av dem som bor i Saltnes/Spetalen-området er noe mer usikkert; antagelig noe rundt 2000.
In the whole of the Raade municipality there were 7 206 people living in 2015. How many of those that were living within the Saltnes/Spetalen area is more uncertain, but probably approximately 2000.
(Compliments of SRB)